Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…catching 500 to 600 salmon a day in their weir fishery, and that they had caught 750,000 salmon that year.8 One anthropologist estimated the annual pre-contact level of salmon consumption…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…$400 a year and for the remainder of the years were to be set at “a fair market rate.” When the leases ended in 1995, Musqueam argued that the rents…
Gustafsen Lake
…prison, but was released on parole after one year. Upon his release, he fled to the United States, still fearing for his life after having been shot at during the…
Global Actions
…Greenlandic founding organizations, Canada (members of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the National Indian Brotherhood), as well as the Saami of Scandinavia. The following year, in 1974, the International Indian…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…the following year. Upon its approval, the draft declaration was sent to the Commission of Human Rights, which established another working group consisting of human rights experts and over 100…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Chiefs‘ Council. Each member of the Executive Committee serves a term of three years.3 The UBCIC holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) every year in which each member band is…
About Indigenous Foundations
…Indigenous Foundations. First Nations and Indigenous Studies UBC, 2009. Website. [Date accessed]. Chicago format Foot/endnote: 1. Author surname, first name. “Article name”. Indigenous Foundations. indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca. (accessed Month, day, year). Bibliography:…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…morning at the First Nations Longhouse as participants entered the First Nations Longhouse through the ceremonial entrance door, a door normally opened only for graduation ceremonies twice a year. During…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…northern Manitoba. Swampy Cree is our dialect. I was raised there, but am currently living in Winnipeg, after an eleven year hiatus in Vancouver, BC. When creating a new piece,…
Constitution Express
…over the following year to further develop Section 35—subsections (3) and (4) were added in 1983. For more information on the development of Section 35 and what it means, please…